This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars'
engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both
advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers
the recent "humanities turn" in mobilities studies. The book's
scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography's vision of a
mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the
contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel,
technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a
close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction
maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting
interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and
methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions
range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address
questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation,
geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.